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Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Montaigne

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.820.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Australian musician, ARIA Award-winner and former Eurovision contestant Montaigne – aka Jessica Alyssa Cerro – is this week’s dream diner. Will James bring up 2016?


Montaigne is touring Australia in August for the 10th anniversary of their Glorious Heights album. For dates and tickets go to montaignemusic.com.au

Listen and buy Montaigne’s latest album ‘it’s hard to be a fish’ here.

Follow Montaigne on Instagram and TikTok @actualmontaigne


Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 7 May.


Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcast

Follow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offmenuofficial.

And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.


Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.

Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.

Video production by Ben Williams and Megan McCarthy for Plosive.

Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).


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0:00.0

I'm on tour. I'm on tour until August. And there are still tickets available at

0:05.0

James Acaster.com. I'm looking at you, Glasgow, Belfast. Oh, there was somewhere else.

0:12.3

Just please go on the website to buy tickets, please, Jamesacaster.com. Welcome to the off-menu podcast, peeling the tab of conversation off the Toblerone of friendship and really trying out to break off a chunk of

0:41.4

humour is the Toblerone podcast James. I was just thinking about Tobler, I'm so tired. That is Ed Gamble. My

0:49.3

name is James Daycastle. Together we own a dream restaurant and every single week we invite

0:53.2

a guest house and their favourite ever start of Maycles dessert side dish and drink not in that order and this

0:57.7

week our guest is montaigne montane james is a musician of course fantastic musician uh one of my

1:05.4

faves i discovered their music as part of my 2016 project and i went absolutely nuts. Oh, no way. And bought loads of albums in 2016. Hang on, we've interviewed everyone from Strictly. We're going through everyone you discovered in 2016. Yes, and it's going to be a long road, my friend. That's a lot of people. That is a lot of people. And every one of their albums, I'd say, has got better and better. But when in mind, started well. I loved the debut album.

1:28.5

Yeah.

1:29.1

Each album I've loved more and more,

1:30.7

loved the direction that their music has gone in.

1:32.3

And I absolutely love their new album.

1:33.8

It's hard to be a fish.

1:35.0

I listened to it on the way over.

1:36.3

I loved it as well.

1:37.3

It's fantastic.

1:38.5

Very excited to talk to Jess.

1:40.6

Yes.

1:41.2

Which is Montaigne's the actual name. Yes.

1:46.0

About the album.

1:49.1

And also, I don't know what kind of food they like.

1:52.2

Even though we've worked together, we've made food together?

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